TIAN Xue-mei,LI Hong-wei,DONG Ying-chun,et a1.
Forensic Science And Technology. 2010, 0(5): 8.
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Objective To explore the rule of dental calcification and set up a age estimation method according to dental cal— cification for 6~15 years old adolescents in Chongqing.Methods 1321 digital orthopantomograms(male577,female 744)were studied.Referring to the standard of grading,the grading scores,gender and age were analyzed with SPSSl3.0.Then we got an equation for age estimation.Results There were no significant difference between homonymic teeth(P>0.05)but it was opposite between gender(P<0.05),each coefficient of correlation between the age and the dental calcification was above 0.58,all of the adjusted Rz for the equations were above 0.67,the standard error of estimate is 0.95 to 1.I I years for male and 1.02 to 1.12 years for female.Conclusion The method used in this study can be applied to estimate age for the groups aged from 6 to 15 years old in Chongqing.